The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 23
For another day and night the battle raged more furiously than before.
Who acts: battle · What happens: rage
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 raged | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 night | cc |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 battle | det |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 raged | nsubj |
| 8 | raged | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 furiously | advmod |
| 10 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 8 raged | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 before | case |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 furiously | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 raged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | past | the battle | day | furiously property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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